Can't Be Broken
Can't Be Broken
What Coaches Look For: 5 Qualities Beyond Physical Talent: C-Monsters Mindset
Today we explore the five key attributes coaches look for beyond physical talent when recruiting athletes. These intangible qualities often make the difference between getting noticed and getting passed over.
• Body language matters - coaches evaluate how you present yourself before seeing your athletic abilities
• Responding positively to failure shows mental toughness and resilience
• Self-driven hustle without external motivation demonstrates true commitment
• Making eye contact during instruction signals respect and eagerness to learn
• How you treat teammates and maintain accountability reflects leadership qualities
• You're only as strong as your weakest link - great athletes elevate those around them
• Being intense on the field while representing yourself well off it creates the complete package
If you have any questions, you can always reach out to me at UAGfit. Remember, you can't be broken.
What up, what up, what up, and welcome to another episode of the Can't Be Broken Podcast. I'm your host, Seamonster, and today we're doing Seamonster's Mindset. Haven't been out here in a little bit with Seamonster's Mindset, but here we go again trying to get back at it. I've been doing a lot of interviews with young ladies and people in the fitness industry and their stories of overcoming adversity and whatnot and shout out to them and the previous episodes that we had. Hopefully you listened to them and took something out of it. But here we go with the Sea Monsters Mindset. Nice and short, quick and powerful is what we're trying to make it here, something that can help out any athlete in any sport and what coaches are looking for in order for them to get to the next level and become the best version of themselves, to help out their team win and to become the best version of themselves. So just an idea of what like coaches from your coach that you play the sport in to strength and conditioning coaches, to fundamental coaches and people that are training you and trying to pass on their experience to make you a better athlete in all aspects of life. A nutrition coach and your regular coach from whatnot, and so these are things that they're looking for and when college coaches and people go out to recruit, and the high level from pro level and whatnot, what they're looking for in a player that will make their lives easier, that will make the athlete the best version and that will contribute to the team to become a better team, that will add value to that team. And so there's five things that coaches are looking for in athletes to benefit their team and also benefit themselves, the player. The first one is going to be your body language, and that is just by taking. A coach will take a look at you and look at you from head to toe without knowing anything else about you, and they're able to tell with your body language how you carry yourself, where, in what direction and who you are. And it starts there. It's like they always say you know, the first impression is the biggest impression is, or like.
Speaker 1:First impressions are very valuable and that's true. Like if I see a player or a person come in and they have their shirts untucked, their shoes are untied, uh, or you know a uniform they put on and it hasn't been washed, or their shirts untucked as well, their hats all is backwards or to the side or they have donuts stands for their mouth or something. Obviously that's way going overboard. But things like that, how they walk they look tired. If if they don't look focused or they look slouchy and the way they're just carrying themselves, the body language is important. They're just carrying themselves. The body language is important.
Speaker 1:Nobody wants to look at somebody going up to the high level, from division one all the way to the pro level, and look at a sack of suds, a soup sandwich. They want to look at somebody who's prepared, who's focused, who's ready. And you can tell that by just looking at somebody, and coaches will look right off the bat Boom Without getting to know anybody. How does this guy look? How does he look? And the way he looks might be the way he plays.
Speaker 1:My brother used to have a saying that he learned from a coach at Pepperdine when he was there, and I think it was Andy Lopez who told him. He said it starts with, it starts by the way you look. If you look good, you feel good. If you feel good, you play good. And if you play good, they pay good. And that is so true because if you look good, if your body language and the way you carry yourself is good, you're going to feel good about yourself and that's going to transpire into how people look at you without knowing you specifically, knowing anything about you. So it's very important that your body language comes off as you're ready to play and you're focused and you've done everything and prepared to be the best version of yourself on game day.
Speaker 1:Number two how you respond to failure. A coach wants to look at you and how you respond to a strikeout, to a missed ball, to an error, to a missed shot, to whatever the failure may be, in whatever sport, and how you respond to that with your body language. Does it look like something you're saying you know what? I made an error, let's go Give me the ball again. You know something that they don't have to hear. You tell the pitcher hey, give me the ball again. Hey, turn to no worries Me and you, let's go on, let's move forward. It's what you're doing with your body that they're looking at and how you respond. And then do you get the next ball entering that double play? Or after that strikeout, did you learn? Or after that strike, did you learn and overcome? Did you adapt? How you respond to failure is super important. Did you go for the day before and the next day, you know, or after that? You worked out, you hit some balls, you figured out what was going on. Maybe some bad pitches you were swinging at, maybe bad mechanics, maybe, whatever. You didn't sleep well. Did you fix that and come off the next day and overcome that, Overcoming failure? How did you respond to failure? Super important Number three do you hustle or outwork people without the coach or anybody telling you to do it or some external motivation?
Speaker 1:Do you yourself want it so bad that you're hustling everywhere you go, that nobody has to tell you to work hard, that nobody has to force you or motivate you or yell at you or inspire you to be the best version of yourself by doing the right thing and working hard all the time? Are you a self-driven person Because you want it, because you want it Because you know that if you invest in yourself and you work hard and you hustle, that, it's going to benefit you and you're going to thus then benefit the team? Do you do it without the coach telling you? Do you have self-initiative and self-drive to outwork and hustle all the time?
Speaker 1:Number four where are your eyes when the coach and people are talking, when people are trying to give you instruction, help you out. Are you looking around? Are you looking down? Are you not making eye contact with the coach? Are you looking down? Are you not making eye contact with the coach? It lets the coach know. Well, let's the coach feel like you're not paying attention, like you're not grasping what you're probably taking it in and you're focused on him. And more than likely, because you are focused on him and you're looking at the coach or the person in front of you giving you instruction. You're listening, you're taking it in, you're absorbing it, you're growing, you're taking something in and moving forward with it. But if you're not, the coach goes what are you looking at? Where's your head at? Why are you not looking at me? How come you're not taking it in? What are you space? You know, what are you daydreaming about? It's very important that when a coach is talking, to look at them in the eye, to look at the person who's speaking, as if whether you are not, but you should be interested taking it in, absorbing it and growing.
Speaker 1:And number five how do you treat your teammates? How do you treat your teammates? How do you and your teammates get along? Now, I'm not talking about getting along, being the best buddies. I'm talking about do you respect them for their work ethic? Some of the greatest players didn't get along Kobe and Shaq, certain people like that. Not that they didn't get along, but they knew that they had to respect each other and their work ethic and their time at practice and how they played the game and how they carried themselves.
Speaker 1:You don't have to have a commonality off the field, but you have to have commonality and appreciation and in your work ethic, in the goal-orientated person of achieving championships, in what you're there to do. Be a dog on the field, on the court, in the arena, whatever you're doing, Be a fucking dog, but off the field, be the nicest person. Represent your last name, Represent your school, your organization, your team with good morals and value, but on the field, everybody, even your teammates, hold people accountable. Hold each people accountable. Hold each other accountable. When somebody's not working to what you think is their ability, fucking get on them. Tell them the truth, Because those people that are running behind you don't make your team better. You're only as strong as your weakest link. So just remember that it is your responsibility as a leader to bring them out. To bring them and make them better. Don't leave them behind. Don't just get mad at them and pissed off and ignore them. Bring or hold those kids or those people accountable, Tell them the truth and then show them and help them become better players to help out your team in order to win championships.
Speaker 1:Those are the five things that coaches look for. Obviously, there's talent. There's you know how you run, your physical ability, all these other things that I can talk about, and people will be like you didn't bring up just talent. You didn't bring up he throws 90 something or he throws 100, or he can run or he has, you know, baseball IQ.
Speaker 1:I'm talking about just simple things that everybody can do without the talent, your body language, how you respond to failure, whether you hustle and take initiative on your own and not work people, your eyes during instruction and how you treat your teammates and hold people accountable in order to work hard to make them better and to make your team better. I hope these five things helped out If you're looking at getting better, getting recruited and doing the things that everybody has the power to do, and just things that you can learn in order to get recruited, in order to go to the next level and in order to be the best version of yourself. Thank you for listening to Seamonster's Mindset and if you have any questions, you know you can always reach out to me at UAGfit Any feedback. Thank you again once for listening and remember you can't be broken.
